The SEDIGISM survey: Molecular clouds in the inner Galaxy

Autor: Sarah Ragan, M. Riener, Nicola Schneider, M. T. Beltrán, L. D. Anderson, Ke Wang, S. N. X. Medina, S. Lopez, Andrew Rigby, Adam Ginsburg, P. Venegas, F. M. Montenegro-Montes, Frédérique Motte, Rodrigo Parra, Ricardo Finger, Annie Zavagno, M. Wienen, D. Russeil, Andrea Giannetti, Henrik Beuther, Karl M. Menten, Erik Muller, Álvaro Sánchez-Monge, C. Agurto, M. Mattern, Toby J. T. Moore, F. Mac-Auliffe, Silvia Leurini, Jens Kauffmann, Sergio Molinari, James Urquhart, V. S. Veena, Timea Csengeri, Alberto Sanna, P. Mazumdar, E. Gonzalez, L. Testi, Leonardo Bronfman, Min-Young Lee, Q. Nguyen-Luong, Ana Duarte-Cabral, Clare Dobbs, Jouni Kainulainen, Alessio Traficante, Peter Schilke, Th. Henning, Dario Colombo, J. P. Pérez-Beaupuits, Friedrich Wyrowski, K. Torstensson, Audra K. Hernandez, Sylvain Bontemps, Frederic Schuller, P. J. Barnes, Eugenio Schisano, David Eden, Riccardo Cesaroni, F. Azagra, Sümeyye Suri, Alex R. Pettitt
Přispěvatelé: School of Physics and Astronomy [Cardiff], Cardiff University, European Southern Observatory (ESO), Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie (MPIFR), Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya [Barcelona] (UPC), Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie (MPIA), Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, FORMATION STELLAIRE 2020, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux [Pessac] (LAB), Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), ANR-16-CE92-0035,GENESIS,GENeration et Evolution des Structures du milieu InterStellaire(2016)
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Oxford University Press (OUP): Policy P-Oxford Open Option A, 2021, 500 (3), pp.3027-3049. ⟨10.1093/mnras/staa2480⟩
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2021, 500 (3), pp.3027-3049. ⟨10.1093/mnras/staa2480⟩
ISSN: 0035-8711
1365-2966
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa2480⟩
Popis: We use the 13CO(2-1) emission from the SEDIGISM high-resolution spectral-line survey of the inner Galaxy, to extract the molecular cloud population with a large dynamic range in spatial scales, using the SCIMES algorithm. This work compiles a cloud catalogue with a total of 10663 molecular clouds, 10300 of which we were able to assign distances and compute physical properties. We study some of the global properties of clouds using a science sample, consisting of 6664 well resolved sources and for which the distance estimates are reliable. In particular, we compare the scaling relations retrieved from SEDIGISM to those of other surveys, and we explore the properties of clouds with and without high-mass star formation. Our results suggest that there is no single global property of a cloud that determines its ability to form massive stars, although we find combined trends of increasing mass, size, surface density and velocity dispersion for the sub-sample of clouds with ongoing high-mass star formation. We then isolate the most extreme clouds in the SEDIGISM sample (i.e. clouds in the tails of the distributions) to look at their overall Galactic distribution, in search for hints of environmental effects. We find that, for most properties, the Galactic distribution of the most extreme clouds is only marginally different to that of the global cloud population. The Galactic distribution of the largest clouds, the turbulent clouds and the high-mass star-forming clouds are those that deviate most significantly from the global cloud population. We also find that the least dynamically active clouds (with low velocity dispersion or low virial parameter) are situated further afield, mostly in the least populated areas. However, we suspect that part of these trends may be affected by some observational biases, and thus require further follow up work in order to be confirmed.
25 pages (+ appendices, 15 pages), 26 figures, MNRAS
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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